Another project for the list. My Gibson BR-9 lap steel has been really noisy, so I've been investigating the possible culprits.
Right now something is shorting out in the tone control, causing the tone control to act like a volume control. I thought this was the capacitor, but testing it out with the cap desoldered and bypassed with another capacitor still yielded the same problem.
So I ordered 2 new 500K pots, so I plan on rewiring the whole thing. Of course, for value purposes, I plan to keep all the original pots & caps.
